Karen Saul

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce conducted extensive market research on the music industry, surveying over 2,500 people and conducting 3 focus groups. The 10-county Nashville economic market has a population of 1.9 million and is the largest metropolitan area within a five-state region. The non-profit company is based in Nashville, TN and has subsidiaries in the United States. The Chamber is a nonprofit business federation focused on facilitating community leadership to create economic prosperity. The region is known for its creativity, growth, and business opportunities, and is home to risk takers. The CEO of the company is Ralph Schulz.

Avenue Bank is a digital business bank based in Nashville, TN, founded by E. Andrew Moats. The company's mission is to provide banking solutions that meet the needs of small to medium Australian businesses of the 21st century. Avenue Bank (Nashville, Tennessee) has developed smarter, digitally-enabled products to free up cash, so businesses can do more with their money. The company is focused solely on Australian businesses and is determined to do things differently to help all their small business customers. Avenue Bank aims to recreate the entire experience of what it means to be a business bank, with a completely new approach to products and services for business.

Part of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., The HR Group LLC is a company that provides employee benefits brokerage services. The company is based in Brentwood, TN. The HR Group was acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. on November 19, 2008.

Avenue Financial Holdings, Inc. operates as a bank holding company. The company through its subsidiary, Avenue Bank provides commercial and private banking services. It offers treasury management, remote deposit capture, interest rate derivatives, lockbox, wealth advisory and mobile deposit services. Avenue Financial Holdings was founded by Ronald L. Samuels, G. Kent Cleaver, Barbara J. Zipperian and E. Andrew Moats in June 2006 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.